Numbers 1:48

JPS Old Testament

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

King James Version
For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New Century Version
the Lord had told Moses:

New English Translation
The Lord had said to Moses,

Amplified Bible
For the LORD had said to Moses,

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, and said,

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh had spoken to Moses, saying,

Contemporary English Version
because the Lord had said to Moses:

Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
For Jehovah had spoken to Moses, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord had told Moses:

English Standard Version
For the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
Because the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord had told Moses:

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, and saide:

American Standard Version
For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord said to Moses,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

English Revised Version
For the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD had said to Moses:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, `Nyle thou noumbre the lynage of Leuy,

Young's Literal Translation
seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

World English Bible
For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New King James Version
for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying:

New Living Translation
For the Lord had said to Moses,

New Life Bible
For the Lord had told Moses,

New Revised Standard
The Lord had said to Moses:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Yahweh spake unto Moses saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD said to Moses,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁷ But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ⁴⁹ 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; ⁵⁰ but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death. ⁵² And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man with his own camp, and every man with his own standard, according to their hosts. ⁵³ But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.' ⁵⁴ Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord had spoken unto Moses,.... Not to number the Levites, when he gave him the orders to number the rest of the tribes: this is observed, lest it should be thought that this was what Moses did of himself, out of affection to the tribe he was of, and to spare it, that it might not be obliged to go forth to war when others did; not that they were forbid to engage in war, or that it was unlawful for them so to do, for when necessity required, and they were of themselves willing to engage in it, they might, as appears in the case of the Maccabees, but they might not be forced into it; they were, as Josephus e says, exempted from it; and so all concerned in religious service, both among Heathens and Christians, have always been excused bearing arms:

saying; as follows.

e Antiqu. l. 3. c. 12. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for service in the field.

Numbers 1:48

had spoken - Render spake. The formal appointment is only now made, in reward for their zeal Exodus 32:26-29, though reference to their future office appears previously in Leviticus 25:32 ff, and they had already acted as assistants to the priests (compare Exodus 38:21).